Sunday, July 29, 2012

Why buy your deadly fetish when you can just 3D-print it?

AR-15 part made with 3D printer (in white resin)

Need a gun and don't want to actually buy one? Care to skirt the law without stealing the object of your fetish?

Well wish no more! Now you can just print it with a 3D printer! Apparently someone has made a working gun using a 3D printer. They've even made working parts for an AR-15 assault rifle. Online plans are apparently available, of course. Gun fetishists will make sure they arm the world this way, and damn the consequences.

3D printers aren't common for home use, but it won't be long, and they are certainly available for those who wish them. Get one, and then you gun loons will be able to make and own all sorts of ego boosters for just the cost of the resin.

HaveBlue did not print an entire gun but only a part called the lower receiver, which serves as a frame for the other components of the gun. This component is the only gun part regulated for sale under US law and as such must carry a serial number - unless it's made by a private individual for their personal use, so HaveBlue is not breaking any laws.

Making gun parts used to be impossible for most people, of course, but computer files for AR-15 components have been available online for some time. HaveBlue claims to have combined a 3D-printed receiver made from hard plastic with parts from an ordinary pistol and successfully fired more than 200 rounds. "To the best of my knowledge, this is the world's first 3D printed firearm to actually be tested, but I have a hard time believing that it really is the first," HaveBlue said.

HaveBlue also attempted to build a working rifle using the printed receiver, but encountered difficulties when passing ammunition through it. These issues remained after swapping out the printed receiver for an aluminium version, though, suggesting the problem lies with a non-3D printed part of the gun.

13 comments:

This does not yet work with full-power ammunition for an AR-15. However, we've been telling you for a long time that any machine shop could rig up a basic firearm. Remember the Liberator pistols that we dropped in Europe during the Second World War? (You probably don't, but look them up.) Making a gun isn't hard.

Unlike you, I suppose. But here's a thought that you may find scary: Gun owners have a lot of guns--300,000,000 or more. Do you really think that it's possible to get rid of all of those? As you've seen, even if you could, more can be made without too much difficulty.

Perhaps a more productive course of action for you would be to stand in Niagra Falls and tell the water that it shouldn't go down.

The era of mass access to 3-D printed life and liberty preservation equipment is here, meaning that the era of "gun control" is blessedly over. Decent Americans are finally throwing off the oppressive shackles of "gun control."

Still calling printed guns a "fantasy," herbivore? So are you going to tell Congressman Steve Israel to stop "fantasizing"? He's so terrified of printed guns and magazines that he's trying to ban them (good luck with that!).

Granted, it's a smoothbore, and seems not to have sights, so it's not accurate; and it's limited to .380 ACP (a fairly anemic caliber), and is single shot; so it's not very powerful, but it's a functional gun, completely beyond any "gun control" laws.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, "gun control." It tolls for your evil ass. Do you hear it tolling, Mikeb? Do you hear it?